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The awareness of I am as creative manifestation and action.I am everything. Everything is inside Me. - Melissa Landauer"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour"from Auguries of...

This was the moment that I had the feeling of being released from a year of work. It was 9:20 pm on Dec. 23rd, 2019. I was working at one of the most popular vintage kimono shops in Tokyo. That day, I was really tired from...

This photo is from a business trip that I recently took to San Francisco. My boss and I were driving to our client’s office when a beautiful fog rolled in to the hills. Because the sights were so pretty, we decided to take a quick detour...

These are type designer Oz Cooper’s original drawings for the swash capitals for Cooper Black Italic. They are kept in the Newberry Museum in Chicago, Illinois. I visited Chicago in the winter of 2009 to research Cooper’s work for a feature that I wanted to write...

Midget When I was around 7, I remember my parents having a mini screwdriver with a yellow translucent handle. It was perfectly kid-size, and ended up being what I used to take apart the alarm clock they relied on every day. I am convinced that this...

The alarm goes off on his phone and we snooze once or twice, twisting together, enjoying the half-light state of the morning. I’ll pinch his toes with my toes. We are in a perpetual state of cuddle and will find any excuse. Eventually, we wrench ourselves...

I drove by the bridge safe in the backseat 20 years since I had biked those sandy streets in a dusty tennis skirt (even though I hadn’t held a racket in 8 years) / backpack full of cold beer. Condensation trickling down the lower back. Somehow I survived...

It is a moment. A moment of bliss where nothing else matters. It is deep, personal, and private. The feelings are not shared with anyone else. All is within. I am not alone. Someone else is there.  It is short. Very short. Outer distractions seep in within...